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The edc stages are pretty awesome and I've had a good time so far. Only getting about 5 to 6 hours of music Saturday was such a letdown. They could really use a stage dedicated to anything besides straight edm though. The meadow stage was the only one you could really chill out by or dance to. Trying to chill by the big bass stages is a headache. All in all edc is not even close to as fun as Coachella for me. I dont like how you get hardly any custom stage setups either. The main stage is what it is there's no modifying it for any artist. This will likely be my only trip out for this event. Its definitely filled with 18 to 21 as the majority of the fans . I just would like it so much more with just one stage of electronic indie with some live performances to break up the monitony of it all.
Your complaint about an electronic music festival is that there's too much.........electronic music?
4/20: Godflesh, Cut Hands @ DNA Lounge
4/21: The Men @ Rickshaw Stop
4/26: Simian Mobile Disco, Earth @ Pappy and Harriet's
5/2-5/4: Austin Psych Fest @ Carson Creek Ranch
5/10: Joey Anderson @ TBA
5/17: Kishi Bashi @ GAMH
5/17: Move D b2b Optimo, Jackmaster, J.Phlip @ PW
5/21: Baths @ The Independent
5/30: The Decemberists @ The Crystal Ballroom
6/27: Fuck Buttons @ The Independent
6/28: Robyn & Royksopp @ Bill Graham
I almost flew out on a whim to attend Saturday... so glad I didn't. I saw some videos of the wind - it looked pretty brutal, i understand why they didnt want to chance it. Insomniac seems to have a lot of bad karma.
I keep seeing people on FB say to move it to the Polo Fields... Uhh no!
Let me assure you, you experienced very little techno.
4/20: Godflesh, Cut Hands @ DNA Lounge
4/21: The Men @ Rickshaw Stop
4/26: Simian Mobile Disco, Earth @ Pappy and Harriet's
5/2-5/4: Austin Psych Fest @ Carson Creek Ranch
5/10: Joey Anderson @ TBA
5/17: Kishi Bashi @ GAMH
5/17: Move D b2b Optimo, Jackmaster, J.Phlip @ PW
5/21: Baths @ The Independent
5/30: The Decemberists @ The Crystal Ballroom
6/27: Fuck Buttons @ The Independent
6/28: Robyn & Royksopp @ Bill Graham
Well I saw josh wink / magda / Andy c / digitalism / I felt those 4 were complex interesting artists
Sure, but you're confusing the term "techno" as an umbrella category for "electronic music," which it isn't.
I'm hoping Josh Wink played an acid-house heavy set.
4/20: Godflesh, Cut Hands @ DNA Lounge
4/21: The Men @ Rickshaw Stop
4/26: Simian Mobile Disco, Earth @ Pappy and Harriet's
5/2-5/4: Austin Psych Fest @ Carson Creek Ranch
5/10: Joey Anderson @ TBA
5/17: Kishi Bashi @ GAMH
5/17: Move D b2b Optimo, Jackmaster, J.Phlip @ PW
5/21: Baths @ The Independent
5/30: The Decemberists @ The Crystal Ballroom
6/27: Fuck Buttons @ The Independent
6/28: Robyn & Royksopp @ Bill Graham
Was really looking forward to Dubfire, Loco Duce, Hawtin,s Enter set, Paco Osuna/Blue Man group half sets. Arg, at least I caught some Magda but overall I didn't get the Enter stage experience I was looking forward to.
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Winds hit 30mph there, I heard. Anyone know how high winds were for Coachella w1?
If you stayed until 5 am, you got Steve Aoki crowd surfing in his fucking raft and throwing cake, champagne, and powerade at the audience... again. One trick pony.
Did coachella for 5 years...this is my first edc
edc blows coachella out of the water
Fuck u coachella
Digitalism was amazing.
Other than the traffic getting there on Friday Night, EDC was as magical as I expected, even moreso because you don't actually witness the magic until you enter that final opening into the stadium. You could hear people's reactions in front of you and once I went through that opening I too was amazed. It was like a sensory overload for both of us and we should have studied the map more thoroughly in order to catch the acts we wanted to see. Instead, we wandered aimlessly and took in the experience as we went. The fact that we shared a sleepless night before didn't make it any easier, and by 2:30am Pete was done. (But, what about Fedde Le Grand at 4:30???) Was I bummed? Yeah, but damn, I should have known better than to start the party too soon, and it's not like I had never seen him. There were still 2 more nights and we aren't exactly kids anymore so we headed back to our room to rest up and check on the cat. (Yes, we brought our kitty to Sin City because neither one of us thought to make kitty-sitting plans until the last minute. No worries, she was cool once she came out from under the bed.)
ANYWAY...Nevermind the details, but we ended up not going last night, and by 9 pm I was thinking that was okay because that wind was whipping outside as I sat sulking on the balcony. We considered it again at about 11pm, but chose not to and just hung out here in the room... Him sleeping, me and Jose' Cuervo fucking with the cat and studying the map like we should have done beforehand on Friday.
Woke up this morning to see the news of EDC getting shut down due to those winds, and thought maybe it wasn't so bad that we missed out. Came across this report while looking at vids of the event...
Saturday night at the 2012 Electric Daisy Carnival was anticipated by many to be the most eventful of the three-day festival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but few could have predicted that it would be the result of extreme weather conditions.
After increasingly strong winds that started around 8 p.m., the festival was temporarily shut down around 1 a.m. with an estimated 115,000 fans evacuated to the speedway's bleachers as gales reached 30 mph throughout the Las Vegas Valley.
"This is for your safety, this is a temporary situation. The music will continue as soon as the wind does," offered an announcement from the venue-wide PA system. Crowds were asked to keep at least 100 feet from the stage.
According to festival security, the situation came as a preventive measure to avoid any risk posed to the integrity of the festival's seven temporary stages. Last year, a music stage in Indiana at the Indiana State Fair collapsed amid high winds, killing five and injuring dozens of others.
Despite the setback, fans made their exodus to the grand stand in a calm and patient fashion, though many were nonetheless frustrated to have the sets of the evening's headliners like Scottish DJ Calvin Harris cut off. At one point, the crowd herded into the north end of the stands began chanting "refund."
"I'm just glad they're making sure we're safe," said Las Vegas resident Amy Messmann, who also attended last year's festival. "Everyone here knows it's for their own safety. They're here for a good time, and they know being rowdy or violent isn't going to turn the music on faster."
At 1:50 a.m., attendees were cleared to return to the venue, but winds picked up again, and half an hour later, performers still had yet to return to the stages.
At 2:10 a.m., Insomniac released the following statement: "With approximately 90,000 fans who have cleared the turnstiles as of 1 a.m. tonight, Insomniac, the producer of Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas asked fans to calmly head to the stands of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway as high winds posed a possible threat to fan safety.
"At approximately 1 a.m., Insomniac, in conjunction with public safety officials, made the decision to temporarily halt the show while an evaluation on wind conditions was made.
"Fan safety is Insomniac's highest priority. We cannot control Mother Nature, and we are taking every precaution while high winds continue and have cleared the stage areas temporarily as a preventative measure," said Pasquale Rotella, the founder and CEO of Insomniac. "We are asking fans to be patient inside and outside the venue while we evaluate the weather conditions."
"As winds are being assessed, a final decision on the status of the production is pending."
Overheard on the security radio at 2:30 a.m.: The fire marshal is shutting down the festival for the rest of the night. Traffic reports showed a high volume of attendees leaving around the same time.
By 2:45 a.m., Metro officers onsite were confirming that the fire marshal had shut down all performances and rides at the festival as the enormous Circuit Grounds stage suffered damage, and winds were expected to remain around 30 mph until 5 a.m.
However, attendees aren't yet being kicked out and are welcome to remain at LVMS. As of now, the festival will continue with today's events as planned beginning at 7 p.m.
At 3:06 a.m., festivalgoers are told to exit LVMS.
It seems cooler out today at this time compared to yesterday, so I'm hoping that means less wind when it starts getting dark, and with a full day of vegetating, I know I'm ready to get down twice as hard tonight.
Well weather predictions say wind won't be more than 7 mph this evening, hopefully they're right. Was there heavy wind predicted for last night because I never heard anyone even mention that it could be a problem
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Anyone who had a Saturday single day EDC ticket is welcome to come tonight. Just use your ticket from yesterday and go straight in! Doors at 7:00...
"We are spending every moment right now creating as many special surprises for you at the festival tonight as we can."
That surprise better be richie fucking hawtin. Despite the wind I had a great time and I'm going back tonight. Josh wink didnt play that mch acid until the end of his set when he realt started ripping it. Magda actually had some insane acid going. Her and GAiser were by far the best sets of the night for me. Crowd was going apeshit, sound system was huge. As someone said earlier, digitalism also killed it, but I saw only the beginning of their set.
Fun night, excited for round two (didn't go friday with that shit lineup).
Gladiator (2 moombahton DJs from LA) got rescheduled to tonight at 4, so I can imagine they're going to try get some other things going on. Pasquale tweeted asking Avicii to do that rolling car stage shit or whatever the fuck it was; I think it was from Burning Man; he was semijoking when he said it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened.
also one last complaint lol. I hate that you cant lay down on the grass without a cop coming up to you and telling you to sit up. I dont need to be babysat
I met some guy who had just come out of the medical tent (the lockdown/shutdown had just begun while he was inside). He said he was laying down on the grass and someone stepped on, then kicked him in the face, resulting in his trip to the medic tent and ensuing stiches on his face.
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Lessons in parenthood from the mother of two boys
If you are a parent of one boy, people call you "lucky". If you've got two boys, you're "busy". Three boys makes you "crazy". Four boys and everyone is secretly sad for you, and assumes you are still "trying for a girl".
The assumption, you see, is that no one in their right mind would voluntarily have more than two boys. Three or four girls? No problem.
But there is a real stigma in our society, it seems, about having a family with lots of boys.
However, is there really such a difference between raising boys and raising girls?
And why does everyone act as if girls come from Venus and boys come from Uranus?
A new book, called MOB Rule: Lessons Learned by a Mother of Boys, makes it clear that a family of boys and a family of girls is a world apart.
Author Hannah Evans, mum of three boys, explains that Mothers of Boys (MOB) learn to burp the alphabet backwards, stockpile cereal, and do school drop-off in
"seen-better-days fleece".
Meanwhile, Mothers of Girls (MOG) arrive at the school "groomed and gleaming" in white trousers and tight pink tops, with manicured nails matching their immaculate motor cars.
MOGs, Evans says, will smile sympathetically at the MOBs and quickly "huddle the girls off in the opposite direction".
Can this really be true? Yes, I've seen it happen time and time again.
The real question is why no one writing books bemoaning how hard it is to be the mother of three girls. Surely someone knee-deep in ballet costumes, Barbies and One Direction fan clubs deserves a 300-page winge-fest of their own?
So is there really such a big gender gap? Sadly, it would seem so.
One of Australia's most eminent children's psychologists, Steve Biddulph, certainly thinks there is.
In fact, he's made a lot of money convincing us that the two sexes are so divergent that we need to buy entirely different books to help us raise them properly.
Indeed, after decades of buying dolls for boys and matchbox cars for girls, the differences between boys and girls seems wider than ever.
I was recently in a department store toy section and I saw aisle after aisle of branded "boy" toys like Ben 10, Transformers and Lego. Girls' aisles were a sea of pink dolls houses, Little Ponies and annoying tiny little fluoro bead sets.
And there's always an endless supply of advertisers to keep the gender game going: most recently Cottee's released cordial with blue or pink labels as part of its "boys v girls" summer promotion.
I have one girl and two boys, so have seen a bit of both sides. It does seem the presence of both genders does seem to take the edge off things somewhat. My seven-year-old girlie-girl daughter, who loves doing hooker-style makeup with her friends, also loves playing cricket with her brothers.
And my younger son, who's a real tear-away little boy, recently demanded to know why there was no "big boy nail polish". (Don't tell my husband I actually bought him some).
But at the same time, I know how intractable gender differences seem to be.
I know when my first son was a baby I speed-drank coffee standing up in cafes for years: I was always on alert, ready to pounce commando-style in case he started crawling under other people's tables or pulled his willy out to wee on a nearby chair leg.
My daughter loved sitting still, and I remember her early years fondly as the era of the long leisurely latte – which was nonetheless still 15 minutes max.
Ultimately, stereotypes exist because they reflect the realities we see in daily life.
As MOB Hannah Evans concludes, you can lead a boy to Barbie, but you can't make him pink.
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TheHuntress says:
I always thought I wanted a girl when I was pregnant, I thought I wanted a little dolly to dress up in gorgeous outfits and play princesses with. So, when I found out I was having a boy I was a little miffed (boys outfits just weren't the same).
But then I found out how awesome little boys really are! They are so cool! You get to play with much cooler toys, they're always entertaining you with their latest adventure (finding my son upside down in a tree wearing little more than boots and being watered by a rogue sprinkler springs to mind) and you don't have to do their hair before you leave the house in the morning.
Being the mum of a boy means that you can be gleaming and groomed at the school gate because you didn't have to fuss over their outfit for the day. Being the mum of a boy means everything is an adventure to be explored and everyone is invited. Being the mum of a boy makes your heart swell every time they grab your hand and say "you're the most beautiful mum, ever, I hope I marry a lady like you" (my boy is only 8, so I cherish each of these comments 'cause I'm sure they'll stop soon).
Every time someone announces a pregnancy I always hope for them they have a boy. Maybe it's a mother/son thing but I never imagined having a gorgeous, grubby little boy could tug your heart so much. I am now grateful for having had a boy, rather than a girl (yes, partly selfish, I would rather do my own makeup and hair than that of a child) and I wouldn't change it for anything. Boys rock!
vox says:
If your husband's genes are so arranged toward the masculine propensity, you will have a majority of male children. If he is dominated by the feminine gene you will have only girls. And I should know because my six sons prove it.
I have the scientific evidence to prove my statement's validity.
kitteh says:
And once again, the issue of gender differences is hijacked by the latest instalment of 'I'm A Mommy Martyr'. That's really all Evans' book boils down to. Biddulph at least approaches the subject without having to bleat about how easy every other parent has it.
Miss Wormwood says:
What a boring bloody subject. I can't remember ever having been interested in anything Susie wants to talk about. Where did Laurie get to?
Mik says:
Have both - the most delightful thing is how "individual" they were right from birth. There were days in their teens when I loved them but didn't always like them but at those times the feeling was probably mutual. Anyway, in spite of my parenting which at times was a bit haphazard, they have grown into fine adults.
Katie says:
""Meanwhile, Mothers of Girls (MOG) arrive at the school "groomed and gleaming" in white trousers and tight pink tops, with manicured nails matching their immaculate motor cars."
Um… seriously? You obviously never met my mother, who rocked up in the battered old 4WD in her trackies because, really, it was a school run, not a glamour parade. But then, my sister and I aren't particularly good at being girls, if your sumerisation of our gender is correct.
And… just because your girl sat still, while your son didn't, means that the stereotypes are true? No, that's just your experience. The stereotypes persist because parents, not children, keep them in business. Why else has 'girl lego' come out? When I was a kid, lego wasn't for either gender.
Frankly, I feel sorry for anyone with 4 kids, no matter the gender. 4 kids of any gender would be a nightmare.
Michele says:
I have almost sucessfully raised 2 girls - both finished School and 2 boys both in their last years of school. Give me boys anyday is all I can say. Love them all to death but teenage girls nearly killed me - teenage boys as long as they are fed and have had plenty of sleep are angels…. and despite what all the politically corrrect people say boys and girls are totally different and need to be parented accordingly.
trash says:
This is the same "writer" who recently said that she thinks all toy guns should be taken off the shelves and banned.
She obviously has very little uderstanding of boys or men in general.
Buying your son nail polish and promoting girl values will make him a gay. But you seem to be a half brained feminist anyway. Maybe you can take your boys in and get their disgusting doodles chopped off and then you can have 3 girls. Take your husband in too then you won't have to worry about males in your house at all. And you can get as dressed up as you like when you take you princesses to school.
LaDiva says:
Three weeks ago I gave birth to two beautiful twin boys at 23 weeks' gestation. One was stillborn and the other died two days later. While pregnant I worried how on earth I would cope with twin boys and a two year-old daughter. Now my worries seem so stupid. I would put up with anything just to have my boys back.
Shane From Melbourne says:
One kid or three, it seems that parents will always play the martyr. It's not like humans haven't been breeding for thousands of years. Send them to the fields to work or send them down a coalmine…..
Sickemrex says:
The boys vs girls toys options are very strange. Why is it that the boy's toys seem to encourage physical activity and hand eye co-oridination whilst the girl's toys primarily seem to encourage dimwittedness and vanity?
Paul says:
Just wait until they hit the age of twelve, then you will wish you only had boys. While boys stuff ups are quite often spectacular, pubescent and teen girls are the most vile, psychologically destructive creatures in existence. While being put through the ringer by a teenage daughter a colleague with three daughters advised that the best thing to do is dig a deep hole and bury them between that ages of 12 and 17, dig them up once they were past their worst and you can honestly bare living near them.
Jim Moriarty says:
I grew up with four older sisters (Irish Catholic parents) and so got most of their hand me down toys. I remember saving up for a whole year to buy a Voltron Lion.
I still really, really hate Barbies. I stuck one in the oven once and called her Toxic Avenger Barbie.
Happy Dude says:
My parents got a set of each. Two boys, two girls. One boy is gay and one girl is gay too.
A Bryce says:
I have 2 boys. They are nothing like you have portrayed here. They have never tried to pee on anything in public, are not violent, or crass or impolite.People are all different, regardless of gender, and I have never been seen in 'seen better days fleece' I think people need to stop stereotyping, especially those who write columns such as this one. Im with you Rachel.
cybacaT says:
I loved this article - entertaining and thoughtful without being judgemental. As a parent of both a boy and a girl, and growing up with both sorts of siblings, it's very obvious that there are huge fundamental differences between the sexes. As a society we need to accept that equal rights and opportunity doesn't mean we have to pretend that both sexes are biologically, intellectually, or otherwise the same.
Bevan of Qld says:
With our boys and girls the only iron clad rule they had to learn was respect and friendliness for everyone, including strangers. Once that is set in stone they are free to develop their skills, boys in managing their risk and girls in managing their safety, thats what they all do, all of them, quite naturally and in every culture that I can see.
Rachel says:
Every individual is different and I've seen no evidence that personality is dictated by gender…only moulded by societal perceptions of gender.
Josie says:
I am very anti-stereotyping children. My son had a pink ballet dress, because he wanted one, and my daughter loves Ninja Lego.
But, I have friends with all girls or all boys, and they'd pretty much agree with everything you said. Go out with the MOGs and they ARE all neat, calm and manicured. The girls daintily open their menus and will sit through lunch. Even the sporty / outdoorsy / chess playing ones. The MOBs are running late, the boys sit still for 3 minutes then they're desperate to be anywhere else.
ozballa says:
what i really want to know is why you are taking your kids to cafes in the 1st place? you can tell they arent designed for kids and that they dont enjoy going there by all the f*#king screaming they do when there…
infamous16 says:
This article is very inconclusive and shows Susie's inability to give an opinion in an opinion piece. The style of this article would be more fitting in a gossip/whinge session rather than to be posted here. Gender differences remain because boys and girls are physically different and hence biological look for different things in their formative years; this is not to say that such barriers cannot be transcended but that they should indeed be recognised instead of being ignorant to such reality as many new age parents would suggest; to complain otherwise is nothing more than a self-righteous hissy fit.
Carz says:
I have one of each and if I am to be honest have to say parenting my son is less emotionally taxing than parenting my daughter. She, like many of her peers, isn't known as a pre-teen drama queen for nothing.
Lucky says:
As the father of four girls I can assure you our car is neither immaculate nor do they sit still…...ever. They do punch on however, though its usually over pilfered makeup or clothes.
Megs says:
I have 4 boys, all in 6 years. Mostly I hear comments along the line of how busy they'll keep me, I think with a "glad it's not me" mumbled under their breath. Occasionally a person with a genuine smile on their face will tell me how lucky I am and I truly appreciate those comments.
Boys do everything bigger. They take up more space in most things they do. They play big, hug big, eat big, walk down the hallway big, clean their teeth big…you get the idea.
I am noticing being a mother to boys more now that they are in and approaching teenage years than when they were younger. I am 1 female living with 5 males - and we only have 1 toilet.
I can't help being a female and needing to communicate as women do nor can they help what comes with being male, immature ones at that, and somehow we have to live together. I don't have any sisters either, just brothers. Female friends are very valuable to me.
Despite the challenges and there are many, I wouldn't have it any other way. Male or female, my children have personalities and that's what I love them for.
NSS says:
""Meanwhile, Mothers of Girls (MOG) arrive at the school "groomed and gleaming" in white trousers and tight pink tops, with manicured nails matching their immaculate motor cars."
.You've seen this happen time and time again? In your dreams, perhaps. Ha!I have three daughters and this was never me. My life when they were young (and the life of my friends in the same position ) was always hectic and perfect grooming was rarely achievable. Besides, I hate pink!
Time to spend on details for parents has much more to do with the number and personalities of one's children than their gender. And your organisational skills.
Now having a young boy in our household, sure, there are differences between the genders, but they are not so striking as you (and those who peddle books) would have us believe. Children are children. Letting them follow their interests, understanding their learning styles and providing adequate role models will ensure parents of either sex are on the right track.
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Bill says:
Well why would you want boys when with goverment funding and policy aimed at assisting females but no assistance at all for boys. Boys have poorer health and education outcomes later in life, so I would not want boys for this reason.
ren says:
Why is it 'sad' that boys and girls are different?
Personally I like the diversity.
You often hear women complain that boys aren't like girls, and later, that men aren't like women. To any women reading this - do you really want men to be like women? Do you really want your sons to be like your daughters?
If so, then perhaps sexism needs a broader definition.
Lynne says:
I am the mother of three boys (now in their 20s) but when they were growing up I actually felt lucky to have boys. I didnt have to put up with tantrums, emotional outbursts, the school cliques etc etc that I saw from the daughters of my friends…it did seem on the surface to be a much easier gig in comparison.
Iggy Crash says:
This is the biggest load of crap. Well done on sweeping generalisations and disgusting stereotypes. Just because you had too many children and now can't cope, don't take it out of the women who can. I manage to stay well-groomed and tidy because I make an effort, not because of the gender of my children. I'm so sick of women like you trumping up motherhood as some giant battle. Raising children isn't hard if you stay within your limits.
Super D says:
I've got two awesone boys. There does seem to be a certain something about some all girl families. Perhaps it's that that last thirty years or so have been, in western cultures, about the best time ever to have been born a woman in the history of humanity.
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The fashion accessory, which remained popular into the 19th century, was used to complement an outfit in addition to serving as a cooling mechanism. However, as their popularity grew, women used them for a more coy purpose: as a means of flirting, says Lois Valeo, who teaches a history of fashion course at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, N.H.
Men and women became versed in "fan language" and learned to express their wishes through the accessory, said Valeo, who lives in Newburyport and is a member of the Historical Society. For example, if a woman touched the handle of the fan to her lips, she wanted a kiss. If she fanned rapidly, it meant she was engaged, and alas, if she drew the fan through her hand, she was expressing dislike or hatred for her companion.
"It was a way of communicating," Valeo said.
Valeo will be sharing the lessons of "fanology," or the languages of fans, during a discussion tonight at the Historical Society of Old Newbury. During the program, which begins at 6:30, Valeo and Historical Society of Old Newbury curator Jay Williamson will talk fashion "From Head to Toe." The discussion is part of the society's ongoing connoisseurship series.
Valeo, an expert on historic fashion, has searched through the Historical Society's extensive collection of fashion accessories — the majority of which have not been seen by the public in more than a generation.
"We use the series as a way to show off items that seldom have a chance to be appreciated by the general public," Williamson said.
The pair plan to discuss everything from parasols, bags and hats to combs, corsets, bonnets and hairpins. There's even a wool bathing suit from 1910 ready for viewing, and all kinds of shoes, some dating back more than 200 years, including wedding shoes, dancing shoes and house shoes, Williamson said.
Williamson and Valeo said the discussion will appeal to the audience's appreciation of history, whether they enjoy fashion or not. "Fashion touches on many aspects of our daily lives, it's a human essential," Valeo said. It can be appreciated artistically, physically or historically, she added, and it tells about the time period it was created.
"There's going to be a lot of interesting things," Williamson said. "Everyone can look at them up close and will be able to really hear about the background of each item."
IF YOU GO What: "From Head to Toe -- Girls Night Out!" When: tonight, 6:30 (Refreshments will be served at 6) Where: Historical Society of Old Newbury, 98 High St., Newburyport. Use High Street entrance. How: $15; to reserve a seat, call 978-462-2681. Space is limited.


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Star 50* Top 5 | Cerner thrives as health care digitizesBy MARK DAVIS
The Kansas City Star
Cerner Corp., our top company this year, is making quite a name for itself in records. As in record revenues, record earnings, record market value.
It continues to break new ground as it thrives in helping the health care industry adopt electronic recordkeeping.
The push for digital medical records stems from federal requirements on hospitals and clinics to modernize if they want to qualify for financial incentives.
Cerner also is expanding abroad, in Canada, Australia and the Middle East, for example.
To show how powerfully investors value the kinds of records Cerner produces, consider the companys No. 1 ranking in market value.
Investors put a $10.38 billion value on all of Cerners shares, a bit more than they do on all of OReilly Automotive Inc.s shares, though OReilly had 60 percent larger revenues and earnings last year.
Fast forward four months and North Kansas City-based Cerners market value has jumped to $14.4 billion.
This is Cerners first win, though the company has bounced around the top 10 since landing there in 2004.
Kansas City Southern
At 125 years old, Star 50*s only three-time winner (1994, 1999 and 2000) isnt showing its age.
Kansas City Southern posted the closest second-place finish since our current ranking system began in 2001.
It climbed one notch from last year by making its stockholders happy. The worth of their collective shares grew more than 50 percent for the third straight year.
In three years, the railroads owners became $5.7 billion wealthier.
Kansas City Southern continued to increase its value this year by growing its business revenues faster than its expenses grew, which leaves more profit for shareholders.
Its annual report told shareholders that their company should remain a growth leader in the years ahead. Although its coal shipments expose it to weakness in the energy sector, Kansas City Southern said it was in a position to haul sand and pipe for use in fracking operations to draw natural gas from shale formations in Texas.
It concluded that there is no reason to think that KCS excellent run is over or even slowing down.
A year ago, this Merriam-based global agribusiness and transportation conglomerate climbed to No. 2 on record revenues and profits. Seaboard Corp. slipped one notch this year but still showed higher sales and earnings.
Its revenue growth ranked among the best by Star 50* companies, despite concerns a year ago that rising pork prices might cut into consumers appetites for Seaboard products.
Seaboards profits, which were third highest among Star 50* companies, got a boost from a $51.4 million gain when it sold two floating power generating facilities in the Dominican Republic.
Operations run the gamut, from Butterball turkeys in the local grocery and a milling company in Zambia to a fleet of cargo vessels.
OReilly Automotive
Our winner in each of the last two years didnt fall far from the top.
At No. 4, the Springfield, Mo.-based auto parts retailer is the second-largest Star 50* company in revenues (behind only Sprint Nextel Corp.), profits (behind only Garmin Ltd.) and market value (behind only Cerner Corp.)
It makes for a powerful combination that is likely to keep the company among the Star 50* contenders.
OReilly has managed to do what some previous Star 50* winners have not. It has managed a large merger well, having acquired CSK Auto Corp. in mid-2008.
In contrast, Overland Park-based Sprint is still recovering from its 2005 merger with Nextel Partners that helped it earn the No. 1 spot in our 2006 ranking, but later was dubbed one of the worst mergers ever.
Similarly, Overland Park-based YRC Worldwide Inc. recently emerged from a horrendous restructuring essentially to avoid bankruptcy and thanks, in part, to all the debt from its market-share building acquisitions of Roadway Corp. and USF Corp. that helped lift it to No. 1 in 2004 and 2005.
OReilly posted stronger-than-expected results in the first three months of this year as it brings its superior processes and systems to the acquired CSK stores, analyst Aram Rubinson of Nomura Equity Research wrote in a February report.
A tie for No. 5 is a strong showing for a company that barely grew revenues last year and saw its profits drop more than 10 percent. Garmin Ltd. is that strong of a contender.
It still managed to post the largest profit among the Star 50* companies last year. And its stock keeps gaining value.
The Olathe-based maker of GPS devices enjoyed the third-highest market value among the Star 50*.
As of last week, consumers had snapped up 100 million of Garmins products since it sold its first GPS device in 1991.
This year has started well for Garmin, with sales gains in all of its business segments. That includes its largest business area, automotive and personal GPS devices, where a word of caution applies.
Sales of personal navigation devices are falling across the industry. Garmins success came from capturing a bigger piece of the smaller market, and management isnt forecasting higher revenues from that part of its business for the year.
Spirit AeroSystems
Sold off by Boeing Co. seven years ago, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. quickly became a stalwart industry supplier of parts and fuselages.
Spirits tie at No. 5 was a sharp improvement from No. 14 a year ago, thanks to higher revenues that overcame lower profits.
Management had projected better financial results this year before a tornado shut down its Wichita operations for eight days. More than 10,000 of Spirits 13,791 employees work at the Wichita headquarters and operations.
Executives told investors last week that there will added costs but that details would have to wait until the second-quarter report comes out this summer.
The company has insurance and is working to control the costs of catching up on its orders, executives said.
Apart from the storms impact, revenues should top $5.2 billion this year, up from about $4.9 billion last year, the company had said in January.
Profits should rebound to more than $2 per share from 2011s reduced rate of $1.35 a share, management said.


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"Transcendence" is a serious science fiction movie filled with big ideas and powerful images, but it never quite coheres, and the end is a copout.
"Transcendence" is a serious science fiction movie filled with big ideas and powerful images, but it never quite coheres, and the end is a copout.
Stay the hell home. You hear me? Don't waste your money!!!
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
Peter Sobczynski chooses his favorite piece of Roger's writing.
Jonathan Keogh presents an exuberant video about the movies.
Peter Sobczynski chooses his favorite piece of Roger's writing.
Jonathan Keogh presents an exuberant video about the movies.
FFC Seongyong Cho looks at Ebertfest 2013 film "In the Family" from Patrick Wang.
The recent #CancelColbert campaign on Twitter raises all kinds of issues about racism, but also about hashtag activism.
BBC America's hit sci-fi show is back for another round of addictive action.
Women superheroes; Sexually confused youth; Heterosexuality every after; Beards and more beards; The interiors of Transcendence.
The title "Middle of Nowhere" describes two of its main characters. Ruby, a nurse on the night shift, has put her life on hold to make four-hour round trips to Derek, her husband, who is serving an eight-year prison sentence. The title also describes Derek, who is not only in prison but lacking a moral compass. "I just got caught up in things," he tells Ruby, trying to apologize. He seems to think of himself as a passive victim.
Ruby is played in a star-making performance by Emayatzy Corinealdi, previously best known for the TV soap "The Young and the Restless." We learn that Ruby was in med school when she married Derek, and we're given some glimpses of their happiness (as in a standard scene of them cooking together). When Derek is sentenced to prison (for reasons that are withheld at first and then never fully explained), she drops out of school to devote herself to his life and morale. This is a decision sharply criticized by her mother, Ruth (Lorraine Toussaint). Her mother is correct.
This becomes clear during Derek's parole hearing, when Ruby learns disturbing things about his time in prison. Her lonely life, her long bus trips and her empty house have built up a sad weight that comes into play when she meets a kind of gentle bus driver named Brian (David Oyelowo). They slowly, tentatively start seeing each other.
"Middle of Nowhere" is the second film directed by Ava DuVernay, whose "I Will Follow" (2011) was the story, much admired by me, of a woman who packs up the belongings of her just-deceased aunt who was a mentor and inspiration. How many people, now dead, have you wanted to ask questions you should have asked when they were alive?
DuVernay also is the founder of the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement, a collective formed to support and distribute serious black films. Its second film was the great Rwandan drama "Kinyarwanda," shown this year at Ebertfest.
"Middle of Nowhere" isn't a highly charged drama, as you might have gathered. Most of the action takes place within the mind of a lonely woman. That's why Corinealdi is so effective in the lead. Yes, she's beautiful, but this film isn't about her beauty. It's about Ruby's stubborn and undeserved loyalty to a husband who lacks anything like her strength. Even in the film's calm, gentle romantic scenes with Oyelowo, Corinealdi brings a grave dignity.
Also effective are the performances of Lorraine Toussaint as her mother and Edwina Findley as Rosie, her sister. Ruth is sharp-tongued and critical, and although she speaks the truth, it has the effect of alienating her daughters. One thing Ruby doesn't need right now is having the hopelessness of her situation pounded into her.
Note: Ava DuVernay won the best director award at Sundance 2012.
The recent #CancelColbert campaign on Twitter raises all kinds of issues about racism, but also about hashtag activism.
Owen Gleiberman's sacking as lead film critic of Entertainment Weekly — part of a ritual bloodletting of staffers at ...
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Awww, toast, dude! That is soooo kickass. IT'S LIKE A HOTTER VERSION OF ME LOOOOOL. tytyttytyytytytyt
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yeh my internet died for about a week
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Here's a piece I started that I probs wont ever finish, loool. GB dorked out on me so I had to make a quick save then abandon it. :c guess it was good exercise tho.
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Kodak emerges from bankruptcy with new focus
The bankruptcy cloud that hung over Kodak for the last couple of years has finally lifted.
Eastman Kodak announced Tuesday that it has completely emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a "leaner" reorganized company. Instead of peddling its once-popular film and cameras, Kodak will now focus on digital imaging for businesses.
"We have emerged as a technology company serving imaging for business markets - including packaging, functional printing, graphic communications and professional services," Kodak CEO Antonio Perez said in a statement. "We have been revitalized by our transformation and restructured to become a formidable competitor … Read more


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January 09 2013
Wrestlers parade into gym prior to start of Mid-Dakota Monster
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Nearly 300 athletes from 23 South Dakota schools participated in the 37th annual Mid-Dakota Monster Wrestling Tournament hosted by the Lyman Wrestling Club. The athletes paraded into the gym in school colors Saturday morning prior to the start of the second day of wrestling action. Lyman Raiders pictured l-r; Gabe Grassrope, Cole Schelske, and Cameron McManigal. The Raiders placed 14th under the leadership of head coach Chad Johnson and assistant coach Chad Penny. A large number of community members volunteer their time to make the 2-day tournament a success.
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- Emergency fire sirens to be tested in Presho Thursday
- United Methodist holds Easter celebration
- "As seen on TV"
- Local Vet Supply business under new ownership
- Sobriety Checkpoints Planned
- Reliance Post Office house on chopping block
- Leprechauns descend upon Presho
- Lady Raiders bound for state
- Garnos inducted into Hall of Fame
- Playing at the farm and home show
- Garnos to be inducted into SD Amateur Basketball Hall of Fame


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My Deeper Involvement with the Art Community.Many new & interesting things have surfaced in my life online to help me connect with the art community better, and some of these may interest you.Firstly I've finally setup my Livestream Channel and I have regular painting demonstrations for the community. If you curious about how I create my art and my different approaches, you are more than welcome to join me. Please remember to register yourself and put my channel in your watchlist so that you will get notified via emails whenever i broadcast my live sessions.Secondly I have my dA chatroom called Artgermination, which dedicated to all Digital Art discussions. It has been running for a few months and it has now become a great place for many great artists to hang out and exchange art tips and knowledge. I am really involved with the chat regardless of my crazy working schedules and I am enjoying it. If you have some burning questions about digital art and th
You can now attach Premium Content from Sta.sh!Previously, the process for submitting Premium Content required you to submit the "preview" file as a deviation, go through the submission process, and then attach the Premium Content by uploading files from your computer.We just upgraded the Premium Content submission process to allow you to attach Premium Content files from your Sta.sh.This new feature makes it easier to submit Premium Content by allowing you to upload multiple files at once. On top of that, because files uploaded to Sta.sh can be attached as Premium Content, you can now include Sta.sh Writer and deviantART muro files as part of your downloadable content!On the Sta.sh submission process, click "Attach Content from your Sta.sh":Then, attach content from your Sta.sh or upload files
Regarding Referencing and Permission IssuesHello everyone, there's something that has been bothering me as of late.Sad to say I'm used to art thieves now, but I am slowly starting to encounter a different type of theft, one that isn't just plainly uploading a piece of artwork that is not theirs.I've been getting notices more and more from helpful deviants regarding people using my artwork, mostly my chibi, to make bases, or to trace over directly and claim the artwork as theirs.That is considered theft.Regarding the bases, it is not theft if you use a base with permission, nor if you create a base from scratch with an original drawing. However it is theft if you take an image from the internet, trace over it directly, then upload it and claim it as your own. I'm not sure what the schools are teaching these days regarding proper citation, but "google images" or "zerochan" or simply "pixiv/tumblr/danbooru/internet" are NOT PROPER SOURCES.The only artists I've known who thinks imitation means flattery are
URGENT- I need your help!!I found out that my school denied part of my financial aid, and that I owed them $2000 for the fall semester. I've tried everything, every trick in the book to get them to lower it, and I got them totake it down to $1500, but they say that I need to come up with that before April, so I am reopening my cash commissions and hopefully you guys will help me out. Every commission and/or donationwould be extremely appreciated! I don't dare hope to raise that much in such a short time but I would much rather give them something than nothing. I feel extremely humbled by having to resort to this,and as a show of my gratitude, every commission from here on will receive one free animated sticker in the character of their choice.Thank you so much for those of you who have already commissioned me! You have a special, special place in my heart, and I will remember you when you are in need of help as well.Please note me for your art status as well.If you cannot
So my art's been stolen and sold again.../update/update: So....I contacted my relatives and my uncle is in the police force..he told me that unless I registered a copyright with the picture that was stolen before it was stolen, I would have a case in court. or else there would be nothing i could do and I would lose for sure if i tried to take it to court hahaha.....plus he said that this happens everywhere in China and if I didn't register a copyright to it in China, Chinese courts basically consider it public property and anyone would be able to use it....:iconcryforeverplz:well, plus i didn't even put a watermark on that artwork because it was for a contest and the contest rules didn't allow any sort of signatures......=_=;;;; "orztl;dr: there's nothing I can do so.....yup. I'm...actually just really sad more than anything else right now. v_v;;;. oh well. thanks anyways for your support, everyone...:iconlazepoolplz:Edit: aw, thanks so much guys for the support *sob*. I know there isn't actually much I can do at the moment.
Info Updates & Mustache CupcakesHey guys! It's been a while and I haven't been too active on dA this past month but here's the journal to keep you all updated:I've been busy speeding up the schedule so I can release my next webcomic, Fisheye Placebo as soon as possible. The current release date is set to early 2013. That means Knite had to slow down a bit since it's difficult to work on 2 projects at once. However, I still aim to update Knite ch5 beta strips around once a week. You may have noticed that in the past, I posted Knite in full chapter flash format, but I really enjoyed posting beta pages on my :iconknites: account since this allowed more audience interaction. The problem was switching between accounts was too much pain, and updating several pages a day flooded people's accounts. In the end, I decided to post strips on this account instead. The strips will only be posted once a week so if you don't want to be spoiled, just ignore the strips In other news, I have several other so
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Art Theft *Please Read* *Update*I came across a post on FB that said that you can now drag and drop images into Google image search to find them (it's a more reliable way than typing key words).I decided to do this with my images and alot of them have been used on blogs etc. Okay, that does piss me off when people don't credit me but at least they're not making money out of my work.Then I came across this site selling my work: http://pixersize.com/prints-and-posters/retromanticMy work on the site is here: http://pixersize.com/prints-and-posters/kitty-prayer-36731229I recognise other deviants work there too but I'm not sure who the deviants are.If anyone is going to make money out of my work, it's me, or anyone I give authorisation to. Not some random website on the internet. I'm in the process of finding out how to report my work etc.Please spread the word as I think alot of deviant artists have been ripped off and it's disgusting and I can't find out who all the deviants are by myself. E
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Her CatalystAs she walks through the maelstrom, the words trace upon the tips of her fingers and press into the stone. Every brick, every crack in the concrete, every crossed and angular stroke in reds and blacks and oranges. The drips of the gasoline pool around the base of her boots, slosh as she steps over the burst pipes and the rubble. So much rubble. So little outcry. The silence of the city grates on her eardrums and the mantras she'd been forced to memorize. The Seers demanded they observe thirteen years of recitation before they attempt to weave their first World together.But who other than the Seers can claim the incantations that knot the skeins they twist and pull on like reins hold fast? When have any of the Sisters recorded the visions they traced upon space-time and recited them, left them open for critique and discussion and debate?They haven't.Which is why she walks through the chalky soot of the smashed city around her. This all
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After winning three separate kart racing series in 2012, Zachary Shearer will up the horsepower in 2013.
The Aldershot High School student, who turned 14 last Saturday, won his club title at Innisfil, the points title in the Northern Ontario Karting Championship — a qualifier for nationals — and finally, the Brian Stewart Karting Championship as Rotax Junior Champion.
These came while driving a Rotax Jr. 125 cc, 25-horsepower kart.
Shearer had a big enough points lead in both the Northern Ontario and Brian Stewart series that he basically had to just participate in the final races to earn the overall points totals.
He qualified for nationals at the Northern Ontario Karting Championship, but had a tough time there.
"I kind of messed up at nationals," he said.
The all-round athlete, who played for Aldershot's junior football team the past season, is also involved in hockey (the bantam MD Bulldogs), lacrosse, soccer and track and field.
It doesn't matter to Shearer whether it's a team sport or an individual pursuit.
"I just like doing a lot of stuff to keep busy," said Shearer, who said karting is his favourite sport.
He'll take a break from racing until the spring, when he'll start competing in the Shifter class, which features karts with the same 125 cc motors but with the horsepower restrictions eased significantly.
"At the fastest track that the shifters go to, which is Shannonville, I'm pretty sure last year they were reaching 85 or 90 miles per hour," said Shearer, who will be facing older drivers in the new class. "It'll be really hard the first year coming up."
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The Catholic 7 have had their share of success on the basketball court over the years, but there is one area where these schools have fallen short of excellence - in fostering their Catholic identity.
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Atsena Otie - the island you see from the restaurants and the big dock on the waterfront in Cedar Key has a long history. The cemetery located on the island is the final resting place for a cross section of the early pioneer families of Levy County.
In April of 1929, a group called the Patrons of Williston Grammar School contacted Florida Gov. Doyle E. Carlton to lodge a complaint against the Levy County School Board. At issue was the closing of the grammar school two months early, while the high school continued classes for the full eight-month term.
The Patrons argued that in 1927, they privately paid $4.00 per month for the two last months of school so the students could have a full eight-month term. The following year, they paid for one month so students could have an eight-month term.
By Toni C. Collins
Levy County Historian
In March of 1933, as many as 15 million people - a quarter of the nation's workers - had no job and no hope of finding one. Factories lay idle, storefronts vacant, fields plowed under. State governments, cities, and towns had exhausted their meager relief funds.
By TONI C. COLLINS
Levy County Historian
The Federal government has conducted a census or account of its population every year since 1790. In that year the census takers, who were U.S. marshals on horseback, counted 3.9 million inhabitants.
Why did the government undertake such a huge project? As America expanded, the nation's interests grew more complex and the government needed to plan for that new growth.
In pastt columns, I discussed the effect children with disabilities have on marriages.
One reader emailed, 35-year-old Brad from Southern California, to say he had been having a remarkably positive experience.
His three-year-old daughter has Down syndrome, which was caused by an embryo cell division that created an extra No. 21 chromosome. It affects 350,000 Americans.
By TONI C. COLLINS
Levy County historian
On Jan. 19, 1979, James Lancaster of Luraville, a small community in Suwannee County on the east bank of the Suwannee River, mounted a drive to retrieve a relic from the river. Remembering the engine's location from early boyhood, Lancaster financed the venture to bring to the surface a 130-year-old locomotive from the river bottom.
By TONI COLLINS
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There are few things that can make one's heart skip a beat like the words, "The mail's in!". The expression conjures up images of a color postcard with a picture of the Statue of Liberty, a letter from a loved one in battle halfway around the world, or even the Sears Roebuck Christmas catalog.
By ELIZABETH WARREN
According to the American Diabetes Association, type 2 diabetes occurs when a person's body "does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin." It's the most common form of diabetes.
Barb Landes of West Liberty, Ohio, has been reading this column in the River Current. She knows diabetes better than just about anyone: her late father had type 2 diabetes, she has been a diabetes nurse educator for more than 30 years, and she herself was diagnosed in 2008 as having pre-diabetes.
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The easiest way to ensure you're purchasing the right set of replacement tires for your trailer is to simply write down your current size designation -- located on the sidewall of your tire -- and bring this information to your local tire distributor. If you're the do-it-your-self type, the shopkeeper will grab exactly what you need, and you can be on your way to replace those old worn-out tires. If you bring your trailer in to the shop, the dealer will probably even install them for you.
But for those elite few who wish to glean a bit of knowledge from these cryptic markings — read on. Those numeric and alphabetic combinations may look as mysterious as hieroglyphs on an ancient Egyptian urn, but with a little effort, you'll soon understand their significance, an understanding that you can then use to your advantage during future tire purchases.
Trailer tires use one of three — yes three — different marking conventions to indicate tire size: numeric, alpha numeric and metric. All three conventions are used on the Bass Pro Shops website.
Numeric identification is probably the most commonly used convention for indicating the size of small trailer tires. Most numeric identification systems indicate tire Section Width in inches, Rim Diameter in inches and Load Range. Load range is the weight carrying capacity of an individual tire represented by an alphabetic symbol.
4.80 x 8B
Section Width
Rim Diameter
Load Range
4.80 x 8B
Some larger trailer tires utilize a numeric size designation that also includes the tires Overall Diameter. This number is placed at the beginning of the tire's size description, which also includes Section Width, Rim Diameter and Load Range.
20.5 x 8.0 x 10C
Overall Diameter
Section Width
Rim Diameter
Load Range
20.5 x 8.0 x 10C
More descriptive than the Numeric system, Alpha Numeric tire size designations indicate Air Chamber Size, Aspect Ratio, Rim Diameter and Load Range. Aspect Ratio is the ratio between tire height and width expressed as a percentage. Aspect Ratio is determined by dividing the tire's section height by its section width, and then multiplying the result by 100 (section height/section width x 100 = aspect ratio). Just remember that the higher the percentage, the taller the section height of the tire; the lower the percentage, the shorter the tire's section height.
B78 x 13C
Of the three, metric designations cram the most information into the tire size description. This includes the addition of alphabetical codes that indicate tire application/type, section width in millimeters, aspect ratio, tire construction, rim diameter (inches) and load range.
Section Width
Aspect Ratio
Rim Diameter
Load Range
ST = Special Trailer
R = Radial
A word of warning: Light Truck (LT) and Passenger (P) designated tires should never be used as trailer tires. Special Trailer (ST) tires are built tougher than P and LT tires to withstand the abuse that causes tire bruising and blowouts. The ST tire's stronger side wall also helps alleviate trailer sway problems.
This tire size primer should help you make an informed decision next time you're in need of a new set of trailer tires. Should some sly tire shop owner try and stick you with a set of LT tires instead of the appropriate ST type, you'll know the difference. Heck, you might even take you're new-found knowledge to the web and save a few bucks.


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NEW YORK, NY, VANCOUVER, BC and LONDON, UK, Jan. 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ - Digital sports video agency SendtoNews today signed a strategic partnership with the world's number one sports video news agency Sports News Television (SNTV), a joint venture of IMG Media and The Associated Press. With this partnership SendtoNews acquires the rights to distribute SNTV digital and broadcast content through its News Partnership Network™ consisting of thousands of top television, radio, print, and online news outlets throughout North America. In December it delivered 15 million digital and broadcast impressions according to Nielsen.
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Ever tried to fold a fitted sheet? Ridiculously frustrating, isn't it? But, like us, we bet you kept at, believing there's got to be a way (and that it somehow mattered).
All month we've been talking about summer fun. No matter what you do for summer fun, we know that there's one thing that will kill your summer fun spirit for sure: trying to make everything perfect.
We have the perfect guest to help you get over being perfect and onto enjoying life. It's Lisa Quinn, Emmy Award-winning television host and recovering Marthaholic who gets real on the follies of housekeeping and so much more. Author of "Life's Too Short to Fold Fitted Sheets" she gave us a crash course in Slacker Chic 101 that will have over-extended women everywhere laughing out loud and throwing in the towel, the dishtowel, that is.


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To Catch a Thief
Security teams use modern surveillance methods to foil con games as old as casinos themselves.
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To anyone with a criminal mind, each casino in Las Vegas must resemble a great big, neon-wrapped piggy bank--just waiting to be busted open. Money is the lifeblood that flows through the city's veins, and ostentatiousness is a 24/7 preoccupation in Vegas. The financial fabulousness of the city is epitomized by racks of $5,000 chips, diamond-dipped high rollers and ATMs that dispense crisp $100 bills as if they're pocket change. For a crook to see all those riches--right out there, on display around the clock--without making a grab for them must be the frustrating equivalent of a reformed junkie camping out in a Turkish poppy field. Sooner or later, though, the urge to get that money becomes too much to restrain. That is when cheaters, crooks and con men go to work in Las Vegas.
For Jose Vigoa and Oscar Cisneros the draw of all that dough must have become visceral, for they did something very stupid, very blatant, very brazen: they went on a John Dillingerstyle armed robbery spree, knocking down three casinos. When they robbed the Desert Inn, shots were fired at a couple of armored car guards. The Mandalay Bay holdup got them branded as a menace. And for the 6:30 a.m. Bellagio heist, the guys went right to the source, leaping into the cashier's cage, wielding guns and making threats.
Things began to unravel when a Vegas police officer recognized Vigoa behind the wheel of his SUV, matching him with the man on the Bellagio's surveillance tape. Not one to go quietly, Vigoa led police on a high-speed chase, seemingly oblivious to the fact that his wife and daughter were with him. He hit a tree, took off on foot, and was wrestled to the ground by police officers. In summing up the larcenous duo, Lt. John Alamshaw of Las Vegas's police department understated, "We believe they are hardcore individuals. They showed the ability to remain calm in stressful situations."
With qualities like those, gun-toting Vigoa and Cisneros might have found themselves in the wrong branch of the underworld. Casino cheating might have been a more suitable pursuit. It is crime's brainy, white collar profession, and there seem to be few places better than Las Vegas in which to do it. Certainly it is lucrative, as can be attested by the millions of dollars that casinos around the world annually lose to cheaters. Gunplay does not seem to be necessary when you're bilking a casino's blackjack pit of its top denomination chips. You get to wear cool disguises, and the money is so great that nobody batted an eye when news recently broke about a gang of casino cheats cutting an $800,000 swath through Las Vegas--in only one week.
A prime drawback, however, is that sooner or later you will probably find yourself needing to tangle with Gordon Adams, a manager with Griffin Investigations, one of the world's prime organizations for tracking and stopping casino cheats. Adams is a lanky, seemingly reticent ex-cop who speaks in a slow, deep voice with a southern accent lazing around its edges. He has the perfect blend-into-the-wallpaper demeanor for a guy who gets paid to subtly snoop around casinos. His title might make it sound as if he has a desk job, but he is completely hands-on.
Adams and the cheaters play a cat-and-mouse game that precedes the advent of Las Vegas as we know it, which came with the arrival of Bugsy Siegel in 1946. "People started cheating as soon as the first casinos opened around here," he figures, acknowledging that, back then, the casino owners tended to be as dodgy as their most crooked customers. "In the early days you had casinos engineering decks against the players. Let's say a guy was on a run; maybe the casino would send in a new dealer who could deal from the bottom of the deck and even things up a little bit."
These days, though, just about all the cheating is perpetrated against the casinos. As one gaming executive puts it, "Casino licenses are so expensive that nobody wants to risk losing it by being caught cheating his customers." Approaches from the players' side of the table range from the impressively high tech (computers, cameras and complex optical devices are all tools of the modern casino cheat) to the quaintly old-fashioned (slugs for slot machines, loaded dice on the craps tables, and, when all else fails, the slick grabbing of chips from other players). The casinos fight back by hiring organizations like Griffin and wiring their gaming rooms to the hilt.
One casino manager boasts that he has cameras covering every square inch of his joint--from the high-limit baccarat tables to remote corners of self parking. To prove the point, he escorts me up to the surveillance room where a few dozen monitors line one wall, more VCRs than I can count record all of the casino's goings-on, and a few guys sit at the controls, using their lenses to lurk around the casino and focus on the highest stakes tables. The crew is looking for inconsistencies, for guys who are winning too much or--as was the situation recently, in a collusion case between a dealer and player--not losing enough.
"At one of the baccarat tables," says the casino manager, "we noticed that the dealer was treating each of a player's losses as pushes. It was impossible for him not to make money that night. We captured him doing it on tape and now the dealer and the player are bothin jail."
Another player/dealer scam involves the use of something called a "chip cup." It's a piece of hardware that is essentially a hollow, open-bottomed cylinder, topped with a five dollar chip and painted on the side so it looks as if four other chips are stacked below it. "You ask to get change for $25, the dealer loads the cylinder with four $100 chips, and slides it to the player," explains Gordon Adams. "It's a way of embezzling money out of the casino and it can go on all night before somebody on the surveillance camera notices something happening."
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After tallying more than 4,500 votes from across the country, glassybaby unveiled the winner of its 'million dollar baby' contest: 'dream' with original art by Fay Jones. The limited-edition glassybaby will be available in stores and online beginning Friday, November 23rd. Proceeds from the sale of the 'million dollar baby' will benefit Highland Food Bank in Tieton, Washington.
The Highland Food Bank has been serving the Upper Yakima Valley for over 20 years. Each month, the volunteer-run food bank feeds more than 1,500 people and provides toilet paper, laundry soap and other essentials. They also provide a book for each child who visits. The glassybaby donation will go towards a much-needed truck to help deliver food to those in need.
Seattle-based artist, Fay Jones, stopped by the Madrona studio last week to present Lee Rhodes, glassybaby founder, with the original sketch for the winning 'million dollar baby'. Fay is one of the Northwest's most recognizable and beloved artists, with work featured in over 100 solo and group exhibitions. Her works can be viewed at The Grover Thurston Gallery in Seattle, Washington, and at Laura Russo Gallery in Portland, Oregon, where she has an exhibit opening December 6th.


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The New Horizon Climbing Program is the result of a merger between the old Horizon Club and the Telluride Academy, Telluride's beloved non-profit youth organization which provides outdoor and travel adventure for kids of all ages. Climbing programs are set to begin at the Telluride Middle/High School's indoor climbing wall next week (Sept. 12).
"In the summer months, the Academy does exactly what the Horizon Climbing Club does during the school year," explains Elaine Demas, executive director of the Telluride Academy. "For the Academy it's a win-win. We get to continue to work with local kids throughout the school year and help keep this amazing program alive. We couldn't be happier."
As Demas explains, back in the spring Horizon Board President Lance Waring approached the Academy about the possibility of merging Horizon Programming into the Telluride Academy. The Horizon Club was experiencing a major transition in their climbing staff, so the Horizon Board took the opportunity to evaluate the long-term goals of their organization.
"In addition to investigating ways to strengthen their programming they also looked at the possibility of capitalizing on some economies of scale that might exist through a merger," says Demas. "We were honored they came to us and immediately launched into a due diligence period where it was quickly determined that it all made total sense" to bring the Horizon Club's programming under the Telluride Academy umbrella.
As a Telluride Academy program, the New Horizon Climbing Program will continue to use the Telluride Middle/High School climbing wall free of cost from the School District, enabling the Academy to keep pricing affordable for local students. Pricing will remain the same, at $15 per class or $185 for the full six-week session, and includes use of all climbing gear, coaching, as well as a season pass for the climbing wall's open gym.
The goal of the merger with Horizon is to provide some administrative support, Demas explains, but the organization doesn't plan to change much about the Horizon Club, "only make it stronger and perhaps add a few more overnight climbing adventures," Demas says.
Programming will begin on September 12, and will be offered to children in grades 1-3 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:15 to 5 p.m. (students will be escorted from the Elementary School to the climbing gym daily.) Grades 4-8 will meet on Wednesdays and Fridays,also from 3:15-5 p.m. Enrollment is limited to 12 students.
In both programs, students will learn to tie basic climbing knots, act as part of a belayer/climber team, and master climbing commands and communication. A normal meeting will involve fun climbing games, roped climbing, and bouldering. No previous climbing experience is necessary.
As always, financial aid is available for all local families who qualify. Email firstname.lastname@example.com to obtain a tuition assistance application. To register and/or for more detailed information visit www.tellurideacademy.org.